You're doing it wrong.

I like that idea! Wish I could make a recording that way (without buying complicated stuff) just so I can hear myself play stuff as it would with distortion/compression and clean.

Now you might be thinking, "Pao, that's totally rad but why don't you just play the exact same thing twice?" It's weird cause I seem to ADAPT to whatever I'm using. That means when I play with a clean channel, I actually hit the strings harder or whatever. I don't know but I'm sure most of you guys are like that too. I mean with compression and all, I barely need to tap the strings to the legato stuff. Just saying. Totally OT so I will reduce the font size so people can TL;DR loloolololololoo i like big butts and i cannot lie

Well you could do this with something like Amplitube 3. You could open it twice, and you could have one ear being dirty/distorted and the other ear being clean or whatever.

You don't even need to open it twice.
Just use a two amp configuration and pan one to the left and one to the right.

where's this from? The Great Guitar Escape?

One of favorite parts of going on tour is assembling a new pedalboard. Since this tour will take me all through Europe and Australia, I swapped my 120v power supply for the 230v model. And since I will be playing through an unpredictable assortment of Marshall amps, I brought a couple different overdrive pedals, so I can adapt to whatever the amp sounds like. A parametric EQ will help with that too. A compressor is good for my clinics, because I can get sustain with a relatively clean sound. And I've become addicted to my stereo MXR Phase 90 set up. The "P" and "G" on my splitter box are not there to spell my initials, but instead label the Phase flip and Ground lift buttons (very useful when using two amps.) Since the whole board is covered with Velcro, I use small strips of velcro to hold the cables in place. Now... to pack everything else!

I developed the Detox EQ to make a humbucker sound more like a single coil. Since I'm using single coils now, I use the parametric eq to make them sound more like a humbucker. I always like to have the option of the other sound.

The white Fuzz Universe will be released soon. It has a new switching system that is a quieter than most true bypass pedals.

Thank you,

Paul

Quiet Click relay switching, a new circuit allowing for nearly silent footswitch operation while retaining True Bypass circuitry